The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream
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#2Reading on the topic:
The Geography of Nowhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere
The City in History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History
Re: The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream
#3Reading on the topic: The Geography of Nowhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere The City in History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History
Here's an hour of an economics professor talking to Charles Marohn about Strong Towns: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/charles_marohn.html
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#4Unfortunately if you don't want to live in an environment like the one this person helped build, it seems necessary to be either extremely rich or comfortable with high crime rates, or willing to leave the country entirely.
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#5Unfortunately if you don't want to live in an environment like the one this person helped build, it seems necessary to be either extremely rich or comfortable with high crime rates, or willing to leave the country entirely.
Nonsense. There's plenty of middle-ground between Detroit and Manhattan.
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#6Unfortunately if you don't want to live in an environment like the one this person helped build, it seems necessary to be either extremely rich or comfortable with high crime rates, or willing to leave the country entirely.
I don't think that's true at all. I can think if several areas in the cities I've lived in that have densely packed houses, condos, or apartments within walking distance of some stores and public transportation. There is a huge swath of possibilities that lie between downtown and the suburbs. You may have to give up that one acre property, though.
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#7I read the entire article, and I guess I missed it - what's the proposed solution?
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#8If you want to live the American dream, go create a start up in Europe...
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#9My skepticism of suburbs has mostly been about how the long distance and personal car dependence they create tends to isolate people and households.
Build a suburban "gated community" for safety, give everyone a huge lawn that they're obligated to constantly maintain, don't allow any commercial buildings in because they're considered ugly, and you get an environment where it's pretty tough to get anywhere without a car. Add in the poor pedestrian infrastructure, intimidating high-speed traffic, and some irrational fear of how anybody under 18 out of eyesight of a parent for a second is about to be kidnapped, and you get a neighborhood where everyone seems actively discouraged from knowing anything about their neighbors. Seems to me that this is what creates the unsafe environment that everyone was trying so hard to get away from.
It's interesting to read that many suburbs may also be logistically unsustainable.
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#10I read the entire article, and I guess I missed it - what's the proposed solution?
Quit subsidizing sprawl?